CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-6590

7.8 HIGH Published 2020-01-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-01-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-269

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists when loading DLLs during boot up and reboot in Symantec IT Management Suite 8.0 prior to 8.0 HF4 and Suite 7.6 prior to 7.6 HF7, Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 3.1 prior to 3.1 MP4, Symantec Endpoint Virtualization 7.x prior to 7.6 HF7, and Symantec Encryption Desktop 10.x prior to 10.4.1, which could let a local malicious user execute arbitrary code.

Affected configurations

• symantec encryption desktop (>= 10.0.0 < 10.4.1) • symantec endpoint encryption (>= 7.0 < 7.6) • symantec endpoint encryption 7.6 • symantec ghost solution suite 3.1 • symantec it management suite 7.6 • symantec it management suite 8.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References